The Holy Family, c. 1527/1528

Provenance

Possibly Capponi collection, Florence.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1939

Dutch and Italian Masterpieces from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Dayton Art Institute, 1939-1940, no cat., as by Pontormo.

1939

Masterworks of Five Centuries, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939, no. 47, repro., as by Pontormo.

1940

Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 12, repro., as Holy Family with Sts. Joseph, Ann, and the Young Saint John by Pontormo.

2010

Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici., Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2010-2011, no. I.2, repro.

2016

Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino und das Florenz der Medici, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, 2016.

Bibliography

1941

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 158-159, no. 480, as by Pontormo.

1942

Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 249, repro. 171, as by Pontormo.

1944

Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 41, repro., as by Pontormo.

1945

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 120, repro., as by Pontormo.

1951

Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 66-70, repro. 71, as by Pontormo.

1959

Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 108, repro., as by Pontormo.

1963

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:182, as by Pontormo.

1963

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 307, repro., as by Pontormo.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 104, as by Pontormo.

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 92, repro., as by Pontormo.

1972

Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 36, 646.

1973

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 10-11, fig. 20.

1975

European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 272, repro., as by Pontormo.

1979

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:374-376, 2:pl. 271.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 187, no. 208, color repro., as by Pontormo.

1985

European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 316, repro., as by Pontormo.

1991

Morandotti, Alessandro. "La fortuna collezionistica della pittura gotica e rinascimentale fra Ottocento e Novecento." In Mauro Natale, ed. Pittura italiana dal '300 al '500. Milan, 1991: fig. 18, as by Pontormo.

2004

Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 82, no. 59, color repro.

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